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If your business has a website, you’ve probably wondered what the difference is between domain and hosting, and whether these are the same thing. All the technology behind getting your website online can be complicated and technical, and it’s something that often confuse our customers (even the tech savvy ones!). Here is a breakdown of …

Have you ever seen a prompt, or been instructed, to “clear your cache”? What does this mean? What is website caching? It’s actually a big topic – but we’ll try to break down the basics for you. Websites are viewed many, many times per month – some sites experience visitor numbers in the millions. When …

Modern consumers have evolved from our past counterparts; so too has our purchase journey. Our parents and grandparents had a much simpler customer journey: physically walk into a store and pay cash at the till for their chosen purchases. Simple, right? Things are not so simple today. Now, thanks in great part to the digital …

Naturally when we’re setting up a website for a client we’re asked about setting up email addresses for the business. When this comes up, we will always recommend GSuite. If you’re not familiar with GSuite (formally known as Google Apps for Work), it’s essentially the enterprise level of Google’s personal services you might already use …

Google’s popular business offering Google Apps for Work has recently been renamed to G Suite. Announced recently on the Google Cloud blog, the name change was made to better reflect the mission of G Suite – to make life easier for businesses to communicate and collaborate online. The announcement also promised some new features on …

In a press release last week tech giant Microsoft have announced they are set to acquire job based social network LinkedIn. It’s a huge deal with Microsoft paying US $26.2 billion to make the deal happen. The announced makes clear that LinkedIn will retain the same brand, identity and independence, with the CEO Jeff Weiner remaining …

How nice is it when you use a new app, service or technology that integrates with something you already use? With the huge plethora of services available, it can sometimes be different (or impossible) to get products and services to talk to each other. Luckily there are a few services that achieve this task, and …

Virtual reality is set to be huge in the future, and some of the biggest tech companies are heavily investing in this exciting field. Sony is set to ship PlayStation VR in October this year, and we’ve been seeing some exciting updates from Microsoft with demos of their HoloLens technology. Facebook is also investing big in …